It’s been hot here for the past couple of days, and since I haven’t yet turned on the AC in an attempt to save some money, it’s just as hot (or hotter and stuffier) inside as it is outside. That doesn’t make for a very productive Liz - when the apartment is reaching a balmy 88°, you don’t feel much like doing anything. Just thinking too hard seems to work up a sweat, and while sweating isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it doesn’t go very well with knitting. Especially when you’re knitting with non-superwash wool (I swear, even the superwash stuff I was trying to knit with seemed to felt some in my sweaty hands, though… Ew.)

It cooled off a little last night, though, so I worked on some spinning. I’m still a bit mad at Sahara right now, so I’m taking a break from knitting for a day or so. (I won’t be able to stay mad at it for too long, since it’s actually quite beautiful, but still… I’m allowing myself a juvenile bout of “TISNF!!!” for the moment.) Anyway, I pulled out some of the fleece mom brought for me in March and started spinning away at it last night while I watched crappy movies and not-quite-funny SNL sketches. (I never watch SNL, so it was even more crappy because it was actually a re-run of the one episode this season I’ve seen…) I was glad to have something else to concentrate on, truth be told.

About 1.5 oz. of spun wool top singles

The fleece 100% wool top, from the Louet Northern Lights line, in colorway #50 Grape Jelly, pretty shades of deep blues and purples and electric light blue. It’s always amazing to me how such vibrant, brightly-colored fleeces can result in far more subdued yarns after they’re spun up. See? The original is much, much brighter:

100% wool top, Louet Northern Lights in colorway #50 Grape Jelly

When I took the photo, I had spun about 1.5 oz. of singles. I’ve now got about 1.75 oz. of it, and I think I’m going to spin up some undyed grey/brown wool to ply it with, to make a fairly subdued fingering weight yarn. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it, but I’m thinking it wants to be knit up into an Argosy Scarf for a friend of mine. I know the pattern’s written for DK- or worsted-weight yarn, and what I’ll have is fingering, but honestly, this scarf, in my opinion, needs to be a smallish accent scarf. So, I think it’ll work out just fine. We’ll see what the yarn says when it’s finished.

In other news, I got my SP10 package from Adia yesterday! Whoohoo!

Package #2 from my secret pal, Adia

The package contained two skeins of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport, undyed because my pal knows I like to dye my own yarn (yay!), two different kinds of lip balm, a bag of Jelly Bellies (long since consumed - I ♥ jellybeans), and a beautiful card. I’ve got the best secret pal around. :)

Coconut & mango lip balm from my secret pal

Skittles lip balm

2 skeins of undyed Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport